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Painting by Daria Petrilli via Magpie Tales 


i dig in
my heels 
feel
the pull of water
over sand
the tug of matter
over mine

and the days 
go by

will i never
get better
at letting
go

2015-Rene

Comments

  1. Your poem has shown well the pull of hanging on...the difficulty of letting go.

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  3. Oh Rene........I am pushing seventy and the short answer is - letting go STILL SUCKS. LOL. Sorry.

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  4. a very short way of conveying such a powerful feeling

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  5. Always hard to let go... Holding on is so natural to us. Wonderful writing,

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  6. letting go might be hard no matter how many times we've done it.. beautiful.

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  7. Good short poetry always has a punch like this. Good work.

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  8. Such a big question raised in this wonderful poem..perhaps we must hold onto the good..and let go of the bad?

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  9. wonderful ...yes!

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  10. Wow, such a great punch here. Thanks.

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  11. There is something particularly eerie about " heels and the pull of the ocean "

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  12. Yeah, letting go doesn't get any easier.

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  13. it's tough but you can do it easily next time :)

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  14. I loved the amazing message in the short, simplicity of this poem.

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